Direction to hook fish

[SWiM]

Just wondering when hooking up a whole fish bait do you put the head or tail out. I think I read that sharks will go for the tail 90% of the time? Are Rays any different?

 

[Feesh]

Heads, as they contain all the smell, blood (and the same for rays.) Smaller sharks and rays sometimes prefer a softer fleshy bait with the cuts ect.

 

[SWiM]

So I'm wrong that sharks will go for the tail? I was fishing a couple weeks back using whole fish and every time I hooked a shark it was on the second sliding hook so they were going for the tail, although was only a small species of shark.